Originally Posted by
cny-bikeman
It's entertaining that threads like this go on and on even after the OP has the answer he wants. I should not talk, because I'll probably add to the chaff once I'm retired.
The OP was based on a false premise, namely that shift performance was related to cable tension. The on point responses were either proceeding from that false assumption, or refuting it. The rest were just tangents, and in the normal way of BF, tangents off the tangents.